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Description

This lecture will cover the utility of measuring urine electrolytes including a physiology based discussion of what diseases they can be helpful in diagnosis and how they can be used in critical care.

Objectives

Understand free water handling in the kidney

The presence of antidiuretic hormone in the distal tubule causes free water resorption. It is secreted in various physiologic and pathophysiologic situations

Know how to determine free water handling in the kidney by using urine electrolytes

This lecture reviews this topic in depth.

Know how to determine if the kidney is the source of hypo or hyperkalemia

The transtubular potassium gradient is essential to determine this and the lecture will review its calculation and how to interpret the value.

Dr. Steven Epstein received his veterinary degree in 2004 from UC Davis. He then completed an internship in anesthesiology at Kansas State University in 2005. He completed a three year residency at UC Davis in 2010 becoming a board certified specialist in the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. Dr. Epstein is now an Assistant Professor of Clinical Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service at UC Davis. He is interested antimicrobial use and resistance in critical care.

Current Accreditations

This course has been certified by or provided by the following Certified Organization/s: